Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

In the style of a recent infamous New York Times restaurant review, David Daley skewers Michiko Kakutani[5]'s book review of Calvin Trillin’s Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. (Salon)

If you're in New York City this Thursday, Rumpus, Millions, HTMLGIANT, Bomb, Los Angeles Review of Books, Gigantic, and the New Inquiry are sponsoring a reading to raise money for a feature film—an adaptation of Stephen Elliott's Happy Baby[6].